#fansubbing

I'm wrote this as I finished the first draft of TAIMAN (2005), which was the final Eiyu Club film. And I'm a little down about it, not gonna to lie! Feels like the end of an era for my fansubbing. I'll continue, of course, but Eiyu Club films were something special. To think that there isn't any new Eiyu Club content out there for me to fansub feels quite sad. 

I started on this indie heroine tokusatsu fansubbing journey back in October of 2023, my first published one being Red Lilac (Dream of Shudder). I genuinely just went for it without thinking about much beyond that I wanted to see if I could, it looked like fun, and I wanted more people to enjoy these films. I also got to stretch my translation skills a bit, which I hadn't gotten to use for a while, and certainly not on audio (normally I had translated only written items). Quickly, working on the Eiyu Club movies became my favorite part of this experience.

Unlike the other films I've done, which are mostly one-offs from different production companies, I got to know the Eiyu Club cast and crew of these films as they often returned. One of them I particularly enjoyed was Ichizuki Ogawa, who starred in many of the earlier ones as the heroine and later seemed to transition to either support or staff roles. I also realized I enjoyed certain themes more than others - I tended to divide the Eiyu Club films into "silly/wacky" and "serious/dystopian" and the silly ones definitely were more my speed (although "serious" Evaroid Seria was genuinely one of my favorites and I feel one of their best works). 

Beyond the movies, I went deep into their website via the Internet Archive, and then the webrings from their related websites (the designers, costumers, etc), as well as finding those very few magazines that referenced them. Eventually I realized after all of this research that I was probably one of the top English-language resources for this fantastic little production company. It was a weird feeling, but also, I'm glad my little obsession could provide some sort of archival purpose. 

Misc. thoughts:

Tiny dream #1: I would love to have the CD(s)! (I think there was just one for Suzuka but surely they had to have made others...) The music in-video is not great quality, and many of their songs cannot be found in-video without dialogue/action sounds over it. In TAIMAN, there were a few insert songs at the end that in their original film were definitely overshadowed by dialogue and were shortened, but in the behind-the-scenes of TAIMAN had dialogue/sounds over them as well. Oh, to have good audio quality of the songs...

Tiny dream #2: I want to make myself some Eiyu Club themed merch. I have some access to Maker Hubs in my area, and actually made myself a lanyard for a local con I go to with indie heroine tokusatsu buttons on it, but ideally I'd make a t-shirt or something. I know there are websites and such for this, and I have looked into them and various designs, but that's been on the back burner as I focused on the fansubbing itself.

Maybe-possible goal #1: One day go to Osaka and go to Jungle Hobby Shop to see if they have ANY Eiyu Club items left. It's a long shot, I know, especially 20+ years later, but if I did find something that would be incredible. I own a few of the movies, bought from auctions online, but to buy in-person would be special. 

Maybe-possible goal #2: There are a few locations I scoped out from the films that are still open (as of this post), notably the car shop from Cyber Lady Suzuka 1 and the ramen shop from Cyber Lady Suzuka 2, both in Aichi Prefecture. I'd love to go, even though there isn't much else in the area I'm looking to see. 

Pie-in-the-sky dream #1: I don't cosplay often but I would cosplay Cyber Lady Suzuka. I definitely don't have the cosplay chops to make the outfit so I'm manifesting to the world - if that original outfit is out there somewhere, I can make it fit me, and (if it doesn't break the bank) I would absolutely buy it.

Pie-in-the-sky dream #2: "Machine Ninja Fuuri" was a never-made Eiyu Club film only briefly referenced on their website. I would love to know how far in production it got and if there is any footage of it at all. 

There's a Brian David Gilbert video that passes on a sentiment that I feel about Eiyu Club, about how becoming obsessed with something niche with few other people to talk about it with can feel extremely lonely, but the time you invested in it gives it meaning. Even if I had been on this journey entirely alone, just me and the gynoid girlies, I think I would have enjoyed it. But it does feel good knowing that people watched and enjoyed these works, and grew to love this little, tenacious production company the way I do. 

(Also Cyber Lady Suzuka is best girl.) 

MahouTsukai Sally 045

Mais um episódio. Dessa vez interessante porque fizeram um episódio musical, cerca de 1/3 das falas do episódio. são cantadas, algo incomum em anime até hoje. Vai demorar um pouco para lançar os próximos episódios já que estou ficando sem tempo de novo. Mas pretendo durante esse ano pelo menos chegar na metade do anime.

Conseguindo manter o ritmo quinzenal, mais um episódio de Sally. Esse é daqueles que tenta carregar um pouco de drama com o colega de classe da vez (que só deve existir neste episódio), mas essa série já teve exemplos melhores disso (aguardem chegarmos ao episódio 60).

MahouTsukai Sally 041

Depois de um ano de inatividade, o projeto está sendo retomado. Dessa vez quero manter um ritmo quinzenal e já estou trabalhando em episódios à frente. Esse projeto será a prioridade durante este ano.

Mais uma vez, agradeço ao JooJ do Fuckill Fansub por ajudar na revisão e typesetting, o que não só agiliza o processo, mas dá mais qualidade ao produto final.

Dessa vez temos um episódio mais de comédia com a Yocchan sendo transformada em uma cadela pelo Kabu.

So an HD remaster of the famously banned episode of Ultraseven recently leaked and Flame and I subbed it if you wanna check it out

We're working on assembling a fansub team for the PriParaxAikatsu movie + other Pretty Series projects. (Including doing an overhaul of ALL PriPara subs through Idol Land + movies and potentially a King of Prism Tours fansub.)

Please fill out this form to apply. https://tally.so/r/68eGxJ

Positions filled:

Project leader, TL, ED, TS - Cynthia

Looking for:

Additional/backup JP TL (in case additional help is needed)

QC

Japanese TLC

TS (signs)

Song TL

Song editor

Raw provider

Encoder

Additional roles:

Not really an "official" role, but someone with knowledge of "Akari-gen" Aikatsu since the movie primarily centers around PriPara and the characters from Akari-gen Aikatsu.